High school students' attitudes about firearms policies

Journal of Adolescent Health

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 471-478

  Vittes, Katherine A ^a   Sorenson, Susan B ^a   Gilbert, Dennis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HAMILTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Attitudes; Firearms; Gender differences; Guns

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIREARM; HIGH SCHOOL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LAW; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ASPECT; STUDENT; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0344011057     PISSN: 1054139X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1054-139X(03)00142-3     Document Type: Article

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